novice

Other forms of novice

plural

novices·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about novice

What does novice mean?

novice means "someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in novice?

novice has 2 syllables: no-vice. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /ˈnɑvəs/.

What is another word for novice?

Close synonyms include novitiate, beginner, tyro, tiro, initiate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is novice a common word?

novice is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.